Done Good

To date we have been able to support and make financial commitments to the following causes dedicated to meeting the needs of those living in the margins, both locally and internationally. Click on any of the images below to learn more about the projects we have supported and funded since we began in November of 2015. We are only able to do this through the help of generous individuals like you.

Together, with one small act, we can make a big DIFFERENCE!

Our team spent a week working to construct a 10 x 10 block structure so that three children, currently living in an orphanage, could be reunited with their family. These days were tough, filled with manual labor that our bodies and minds were not accustomed to. As I walked the hill throughout the day, I watched young girls wash laundry by hand, young boys carry back breaking loads of wood to sell, old women cook over fires on the ground, and at the end of the day I walked away carrying the weight of their reality. There is so much about this day that my heart continues to struggle though reconciling. And yet, there is the certain knowledge that God’s love was evident in every shovel of dirt, bucket of sand, and concrete block that we hauled.

What do belts, tupperware, a television, a dryer, kitchen stools, and towels have in common? They were all things that we were able to say yes to providing for this amazing group of boys and their house parents. This shopping trip was the first opportunity these parents have had to have the dignity of choice over what they put in their home, from the color of the towels to the type of storage containers and everything in between. We were able to check every wish off their list! Amazing!

Chosen and Cherished Ministries, located in Fort Jacques, Haiti, believes that every child deserves a safe place and every child has a life worth living. This amazing mama stepped out in faith and adopted these 10 children who wouldn't have otherwise had a family. We were approached to help them pay for schooling for the 2017-2018 school year and raised over $2300 in just two weeks! Let me join them in saying THANK YOU!

One of my favorite causes. This project was memory making, smile-inducing, laughter ringing, day trip for a group of boys from Casa Bernabe to experience some fun outsied of the walls of the orphanage.

A Love Runners Cooperative initiative, we were raising funds for the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing ISIS as the city of Mosul was liberated. These funds provided life sustaining supplies, water, food, and kerosene.

With 69% of Pine Ridge residents living below the poverty line having the right clothing for in climate weather is a real problem. We were able to send 200 donated zip-up, hooded sweatshirts out to a ministry on the ground to get them into the hands of those who needed them most!

One of the most life changing experiences I have had to date. My daughter and I spent a week serving at Casa Bernabe orphanage. Language barrier or not my heart was completely reshaped by this trip. You can read about it by clicking here.

We asked, "What do you need?" They answered, "School shoes and school supplies." In the ultimate back to school shopping trip we got to help provide for the needs of the children at Casa Bernabe and the children that attend the school from the surrounding community.

Our home county in Ohio has the highest infant mortality rate in the state. The Village seeks to do something about that by providing baby boxes for safe infant sleeping and educating new mothers. We were able to help meet some additional immediate needs in the form of diapers and wipes and educational materials.

Pine Ridge Reservation has a adolescent suicide rate 10x that of the national average. With poverty and alcohol/drug abuse abounding, there is little hope for young people on the Reservation. An art therapy program was started through one of the community centers and local schools and we were able to check the art supplies needed for this program off their list.

Everyday items like toothpaste and pencils in these boxes make a life changing difference for the children who receive them. This was where we got our start. We launched Love Runners unknowingly when we sent 250 shoeboxes out into the world. (125 to Zambia and 125 to Columbia.)

Everyday items like toothpaste and pencils in these boxes make a life changing difference for the children who receive them. This was where we got our start. We launched Love Runners unknowingly when we sent 250 shoeboxes out into the world. (125 to Zambia and 125 to Columbia.)